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Trending @ Rwu Law: Olabisi Davies's Post: Remembering A Perfect Summer -- In The Bronx!, Olabisi Davies
Trending @ Rwu Law: Olabisi Davies's Post: Remembering A Perfect Summer -- In The Bronx!, Olabisi Davies
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Trending @ Rwulaw: Ed Weiss's Post: From The Red Sox Gc: Knowing The Law, Knowing The Business, Weiss Ed
Trending @ Rwulaw: Ed Weiss's Post: From The Red Sox Gc: Knowing The Law, Knowing The Business, Weiss Ed
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Trending@Rwu Law: Professor Diana Hassel's Post: Providence, Here We Come!, Diana Hassel
Trending@Rwu Law: Professor Diana Hassel's Post: Providence, Here We Come!, Diana Hassel
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Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Legal Education In Transition: Trends And Their Implications, Michael A. Millemann, Sheldon Krantz
Faculty Scholarship
This is a pivotal moment in legal education. Revisions in American Bar Association accreditation standards, approved in August 2014, impose new requirements, including practice-based requirements, on law schools. Other external regulators and critics are pushing for significant changes too. For example, the California bar licensing body is proposing to add a practice-based, experiential requirement to its licensing requirements, and the New York Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, is giving third-year, second semester students the opportunity to practice full-time in indigent legal services programs and projects. Unbeknown to many, there have been significant recent changes in legal education that …
Preparing For Service: A Template For 21st Century Legal Education, Michael J. Madison
Preparing For Service: A Template For 21st Century Legal Education, Michael J. Madison
Articles
Legal educators today grapple with the changing dynamics of legal employment markets; the evolution of technologies and business models driving changes to the legal profession; and the economics of operating – and attending – a law school. Accrediting organizations and practitioners pressure law schools to prepare new lawyers both to be ready to practice and to be ready for an ever-fluid career path. From the standpoint of law schools in general and any one law school in particular, constraints and limitations surround us. Adaptation through innovation is the order of the day.
How, when, and in what direction should innovation …